A Time of Tribulation

Every year since 2000, I have received a Word from the Lord concerning what the New Year ahead would bring. I have learned over the course of almost twenty years of yearly words, that He is faithful. He is true. He is always loving and reaching out to His own to encourage, strengthen, instruct, and shine light in the darkness. He is still speaking to His children of things before they happen, so that when they happen, we may put our trust in Him for those things we are still waiting on.

I confess that this is a walk of faith for me to share this. I hope and I pray that you will find great encouragement in this Word for the Year 2019.

The Spirit of the Lord says:
“This will be a year of tribulation!
This will be a year of ushering in works of darkness and the works of Light and power.
The power of the Holy Spirit shall be manifested in those that are Mine.
I shall begin to show the world those that I have kept hidden from exposure to the wild beast-system of the world.
They have sat in obscurity, feeling and knowing they were made for Me and My Kingdom, and yet not being used as they have been in training to be used.
They have been restrained and growing anxious as they have seen so many others go forth in My Name.
—Do they not understand that the first shall be last? 
The last shall be first!

What does “first” mean?
At the end of the day those who are called at the last hour are those who the world has passed over.
They have waited in the byways, the shadows;
Overshadowed by those who were out in the field working already.
You have looked upon them with envy… Desiring to be in the field of Your Lord and Master.
 And yet you have not yet been called to go forth, for it was not yet your hour.
I called the best for the last hour.

The wine of the Spirit is saved for the last!
At the marriage feast, the six empty stone vessels were then filled with the fresh wine of the Holy Spirit; and then they were brought to the banqueting feast!
 It was the superb wine of the Spirit, transformed by the Word of Your Messiah and Your Lord! 

It is at the beginning of the new day that the light gives way to darkness and the stars shine brilliantly in the sky!
The stars shine most magnificently when the moon has withdrawn her light and the stars are made manifest throughout the heavens.
And then the moon begins to grow and appear ever more full and brilliant until she is full and lights up the night with the glory of Light.

Hold fast!  Know that the night is descending, and as it does,
 the stars that are in My hand shall be released.
I call them by name! 
I have named you Victoria Ann… Victory and Grace.
I have called all My own by their names, and they are stars in the dark wilderness of the night season that is descending upon the earth.

I showed you the devastation that is coming by the hand of man as he destroys that which My hands have made, to erase what I have done and to replace it with his defiled and blasphemous counterfeits.
Yes, he counterfeits that which gives life, with that which is of death.
For all that is of the Devil is death.

 Just as the days are divided between day and light, so is this period of time, this last hour before I claim My glorious Bride!
She shall be all beautiful and glorious working in the fields as is the desire of her heart!
Oh how glorious she shall be made as she is released by My hand into the darkness to light up the earth and to draw all men of every tribe and tongue into My glorious Kingdom.

The work shall be by My Spirit and your obedience to take the shovel that I offer from My hand.
Take it and plunge it into the field!
 There is no work in this!— Only great joy and rejoicing as you see the work that is done by My Spirit on the earth.

This is a time of dividing and choosing.
This is a time of decision.
This is a time of great deeds to be done both politically and in the Spirit.

Do not concern yourself with the things of the world. 
You are not of the world.
You are of  the Kingdom, and the two do not mix.
The world will hate you, and indeed always has.
Do not concern yourself with the affairs of the Beast system;
And yet you must be wise to the deceptive ways of the world.

I Am in control.  All the times are in My hands.
This time was provided for long before the creation of the first day.

Keep your eyes fixed on Me…
The eyes of your spirit must be focused upon Me,
 and attentive to the whisper of the Holy Spirit.
Go forth in boldness.  Know that I am with you in all you are to do.
None shall stop you or make you afraid.

I am clothing My Bride for glorious deeds stored up for her in the reservoir I have created in her for this time.
She is filled with the Holy Spirit!— A reservoir building and filling from the underground spring of Living water: My Holy Spirit.
When the fullness of time comes I will pour her out upon the earth and she shall cover the earth in a mighty outpouring of signs and wonders.

I know the times and the seasons.
This is the season for reaping what the forefathers have sown and labored for.
The fields are ripe.  The time is ripe.